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KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 12): Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and ex-1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) president Arul Kanda Kandasamy have arrived at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court where they are scheduled to be charged with abetting in aiding to tamper the 1MDB audit report.

PETALING JAYA (Dec 11): Home minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today explained that a national park and Sultanate land is not the same and has appealed to the Johor sultanate to revert Pulau Kukup to its national park status.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 11): The tearing down of the two surviving Highland Towers blocks has been put back to allow more study of the “structures”, Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin told the Malay Mail yesterday in response to queries.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 11): In response to Malaysia's charge that it selectively published documents relating to its disputed Instrument Landing System procedures for Seletar Airport, Singapore's Ministry of Transport says the correspondence it released was to address media queries whether The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) had consulted its Malaysian counterparts in December last year.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 11): Residents living in the vicinity of Highland Towers (pictured) continue to ask for the surviving two blocks to be torn down, reported The Malay Mail.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 11): The Malaysian Ministry of Transport (MoT) (pictured), in a statement yesterday, accused Singapore of wanting to influence public opinion with its "partial and selective" public release of documents last week over the disputed Instrument Landing System (ILS) procedures for the city-state's Seletar Airport.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 11): Mah Sing Group Bhd said its proposed acquisition of privately-held VIP Sanctuary Sdn Bhd has fallen through, due to an unsatisfactory outcome of the due diligence exercise.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 11): The Center to Combat Corruption & Cronyism (C4 Center) said it is troubled by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's statement that local council elections are off the cards on the basis that there would be racial conflict.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 10): Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Deputy Minister, Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis, told Parliament today that the country has 51 ailing rivers, reported Bernama today.

PETALING JAYA (Dec 10): The Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) has lauded the Ministry of Federal Territories and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) for gazetting the Kuala Lumpur City Plan (KLCP 2020) to protect the interests of the city and its citizens.